Friday, March 13, 2009
The Corner of My Watering Eye
October 2, 2007
swollen nerves
headaches
MRI
inhaling the word
tumor
Have a nice day!
Thanks. You too.
October 23, 2007
no tumor
no improvement
blackouts
inhaling the words
visual field
October 26, 2007
visual field test
abnormal results
diminished vision
inhaling the word
neurologist
November 5, 2007
neurologist
cerebrospinal fluid
increased pressure
inhaling the words
spinal tap
Ready for Thanksgiving?
Yep. You?
November 16, 2007
spinal tap
pressure too high
six hours
inhaling the words
pseudotumor cerebri
December 10, 2007
pseudotumor cerebri
tunnel vision
possible blindness
inhaling the words
brain damage
How are you?
brain damage
Fine, thanks. And you?
possible blindness
brain damage
One year later
dilations
durations
drugs
inhaling the words
surgery and shunts
December 11, 2008
surgery and shunts
neurologist
concerned expressions
inhaling the words
MRI with contrast
Have you finished your Christmas shopping?
I think so. You?
December 29, 2008
MRI with contrast
vascular MRA
IV needle
inhaling the word
wait
Happy New Year!
Thanks. You too.
February 24, 2009
wait some more
and don’t
ask questions
inhaling the words
hysterical mother
March 12, 2009
hysterical mother
Mommy
Mama
inhaling the words
visual field
March 13, 2009
visual field test
inhaling
What’ve you been up to?
Holding my breath.
© 2009 Marcy Stoeckel
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Perfection! How you manage to effectively relay such a complicated process in so few words blows me away. I love this!
ReplyDeleteA synthesis of desperate coping. Life goes on. Time stands still. Life never does.
ReplyDeleteOh Marcy. So much talent; too much pain.
God! I hate doctors! not their fault, but my favorite to blame.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the comments.
ReplyDeleteMarcy,
ReplyDeleteThis post drained me. Life continues in such trivial ways while some families, some family members, live in intense fear. I've sadly found no great spiritual awakening, no awe-inspiring sense of comfort - just desperate clinging - in times like you describe here. You've captured how cold, foreign medical terms become intimate, if still cold. You've captured how life continues for the rest of the world. You've captured fear.
I'm drained. Words have such power, don't they?
'Drained' is a word I understand. I suspect that's what fear does best: it drains you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bryan.
i came by the recommendation of Bryan. i must say that every word he gave is true and not even one letter out off the place.
ReplyDeleteWe're still out here, waiting for your triumphant return. :)
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